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In the Matter of JOSEPH McCRAY, Petitioner, v DANNY CHUN, Acting Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department

40 NYS3d 788

In the Matter of JOSEPH McCRAY, Petitioner, v DANNY CHUN, Acting Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, et al., Respondents. [40 NYS3d 788]—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondent Danny Chun, an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, to release to him the minutes of the grand jury proceedings in an action entitled People v McCray, commenced in the Supreme Court, Kings County, under indictment No. 5847/15, and application by the petitioner for poor person relief.

Ordered that the application for poor person relief is granted to the extent that the filing fee imposed by CPLR 8022 (b) is waived, and the application is otherwise denied as academic; and it is further,

Adjudged that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, without costs or disbursements.

The extraordinary remedy of mandamus will lie only to compel the performance of a ministerial act, and only where there exists a clear legal right to the relief sought (see Matter of Legal Aid Socy. of Sullivan County v Scheinman, 53 NY2d 12, 16 [1981]). The petitioner failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Balkin, J.P., Hall, Sgroi and Barros, JJ., concur.